If someone wants to assemble some of the freetserv boxes, I have some of the PCBs and components here if you want them.
- Jared > On Apr 26, 2024, at 1:27 PM, Andrew Latham <lath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If anyone is interested in https://freetserv.github.io/ but does not want to > build one I have sort of documented an alternative at > https://lathama.net/Tech/Hardware/USB-32COM-RM so you can use anything to > connect the 5G or dialup to > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM Michel Blais <mic...@targointernet.com> > wrote: > Doesn't meet #3 but I'm testing Banana Pi BPI-R3 and seems way better than > RPI for this purpose. > > You need to add the mini-pci modem of your choice but their 2 SIM card slots > on board. There are also 5 RJ45 ports if your devices have OOB ethernet ports. > > There are 2 onboard storage (NOR and NAND) and you can add a M2 SSD so it is > possible to have failover disks. > > I also like the fact that there are 2 SFP ports. There are some places in our > area where the LTE / 5G network is really awful so we can use a fiber > wavelength instead. It depends on the same fiber but at least, doesn't depend > on any active devices on site. > > The bad is that you still need a USB to serial ports adapter. Also, you can > customise OpenWRT as much as you like. > > For me, it's an advantage but in your case, it seems like an issue. For the > OP, having several VPN options like zerotier seems like an advantage. > > Le ven. 26 avr. 2024, à 12 h 44, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> a écrit : > > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 12:43 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:11, David H <ispcoloh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Curious if anyone has particular hardware they like for OOB / serial > management, similar to OpenGear, but preferably with 5G support, maybe even > T-Mobile support? It’s becoming increasingly difficult to get static IP 4g > machine accounts out of Verizon, and the added speed would be nice too. Or do > you separate the serial from the access device (cell+firewall, etc.)? > You could get a 5G Catalyst with an async NIM or SM. > But I think you're setting up yourself for unnecessary costs and failures by > designing your OOB to require static IP. You could design it so that the OOB > spokes dial-in to the central OOB hub, and the OOB hub doesn't care what IP > they come from, using certificates or PSK for identity, instead of IP. > > > Yup, I agree — but that simply rewrites the question to be: > "Curious if anyone has particular hardware they like for OOB / serial > management, similar to OpenGear, but preferably with 5G support, which can be > a spoke that dials in to the central OOB hub, and the OOB hub doesn't care > what IP they come from, using certificates or PSK for identity, instead of > IP." > > I've been on the same quest, and I have some additional requests / features. > Ideally it: > > 1: would be small - my particular use-case is for a "traveling rack", and so > 0U is preferred. > > 2: would be fairly cheap. > > 3: would not be a Raspberry-Pi, a USB hub and USB-to-serial cables. We tried > that for a while, and it was clunky — the SD card died a few times (and > jumped out entirely once!), people kept futzing with the OS and fighting over > which console software to use, installing other packages, etc. > > 4: support modern SSH clients (it seems like you shouldn't have to say this, > but… ) > > 5: actually be designed as a termserver - the current thing we are using > doesn't really understand terminals, and so we need to use 'socat > -,raw,echo=0,escape=0x1d TCP:<termserver>:<port>' to get things like > tab-completion and "up-arrow for last command" to work. > > 6: support logging of serial (e.g crash-messages) to some sort of log / > buffer / similar (it's useful to be able to see what a device barfed all over > the console when it crashes. > > > The Get Console Airconsole TS series meets many of these requirements, but it > doesn't do #6. It also doesn't really feel like they have been updating / > maintaining these. > > Yes, I fully acknowledge that #3 falls into the "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts > when I do this" camp, but, well… > > W > > > > -- > ++ytti > > > > -- > - Andrew "lathama" Latham -
